Breeding Milks?

[BoFleeg]

Do different species of milks compatable to mix like Different BP Morphs are?

[blackcrystal22]

Eh, it depends on the kings/milks you're talking about.
A lot of the time I think it will end up being like a hybrid species.. which can be risky.

But they are not like ball python morphs, because all the morphs are still the same species no matter what. They don't change from being a ball python.

So, you could mix them.. I don't know how it will turn out and I don't recommend it..

P.S. Ask Wes (wilomn) about this if he doesn't see this thread. I bet he'll have a better answer than I do about these critters.

[Brewster320]

You could do it but even as a person who likes hybrids I wouldn't recomend it. Other than Eastern Milks and fully mature Black Milks, all the other milk snake subspecies have the same basic adult pattern and the offspring will just look like milk snakes but will be impossible to identify becuase of the mixed characteristics of the parents. If you want to make something different try crossing a milk with a king or a corn snake, it's more difficult but the resulting offspring do not look like either parent and can easily be identified as a hybrid.

[daniel1983]

Breeding different species together and breeding different morphs of the same species are two completely different things. If you are interested in milksnake morphs, I would look into honduran milksnake. There is alot of variety with that individual species to work with if you are interested in mixing morphs.

I wouldn't say that all milks have 'same basic adult pattern'. Most have different 'combinations' of the reds, yellows, blacks, and whites. There is variation in pattern to some extent if you start considering band thickness,number of bands, blushing, etc....but most are banded (besides morphs).

Here are a few of my different species of triangulum:

Scarlet King (l.t. elaposoides)


Red Milk(l.t. sysphila)


Pale Milk (l.t. multistrata)

[Hulihzack]

I like my Hondurans exactly how they are: Hondurans. With all the morphs there's no need to cross them anyway



One of my favorite pics

[Brewster320]

Breeding different species together and breeding different morphs of the same species are two completely different things. If you are interested in milksnake morphs, I would look into honduran milksnake. There is alot of variety with that individual species to work with if you are interested in mixing morphs.

I wouldn't say that all milks have 'same basic adult pattern'. Most have different 'combinations' of the reds, yellows, blacks, and whites. There is variation in pattern to some extent if you start considering band thickness,number of bands, blushing, etc....but most are banded (besides morphs).

Here are a few of my different species of triangulum:

Scarlet King (l.t. elaposoides)


Red Milk(l.t. sysphila)


Pale Milk (l.t. multistrata)

I know there is some variation but when i said basic pattern I ment as in red, black, and white/yellow bands so crossing them would create more banded snakes with mixed characteristics. Sorry I should've been more specific about it. There is a lot of variation on how these patterns are from ssp to ssp.